We’re still waiting for the Trudeau government to catch up with the rest of the world’s liberal democracies and keep Huawei the hell away from Canada’s core 5G internet infrastructure - the easiest decision to make, since the country’s telecoms have largely moved on to other providers. Foreign Affairs Minister Marc Garneau is mumbling about co-operation with China, but of course competition with China, in the same childish language that was bubbling out of the Prime Minister’s Office in the days before the Michaels were abducted. But the fact remains that after Meng struck a deferred-prosecution deal with Justice Department prosecutors in New York, Xi no longer had any cause to keep the Michaels under lock and key, and so home to Canada they came.Īnd now, it’s as though nothing happened. There’s no question that in the final innings, Barton provided exemplary service as a sort of high-drama travel agent. Jeremy Kinsman, the career foreign-affairs fixture and member of something called Justin Trudeau’s Foreign Policy Council, credits Barton with having orchestrated a diplomatic feat comparable to the 1978-79 “Canadian caper” involving the Americans spirited out Iran after being secretly sheltered at the Canadian embassy in Tehran. The Angus Reid polling company’s latest survey, released this week, suggests that 68 per cent of Canadians have been persuaded that the Trudeau government deserves at least some credit in securing the Michaels’ release - a proposition without any evidence, even now, after fairly close examination, three weeks after the Michaels’ return.
Surely, the thinking seems to go, there must have been some defensible reason why the Trudeau government was committed to undertakings and determined in postures that were diametrically opposed by the overwhelming majority of Canadians. Ottawa appears to have been quite successful in convincing quite a few Canadians that its persistent kowtowing and policy paralysis on the China file was a function of the Michaels’ predicament, a kind of necessary evil attending to quiet negotiations on their behalf. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. National Capital Region's Top Employers.
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